[imposterr]

I don't know if I'd call it an unwillingness to roll over, or simply political theatre. Here are some quotes from [0]

>“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win,”

>“Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.”

>Bolton says he was so alarmed by Trump’s determination to do favors for autocrats such as Erdogan and Xi that he scheduled a meeting with Attorney General William P. Barr in 2019 to discuss the president’s behavior. Bolton writes that Barr agreed he also was worried about the appearances created by Trump’s behavior.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-asked-chinas-x...

[brundolf]

Maybe "unwillingness to roll over" was over-embellishing it a bit. He's a combative person who gets into conflict with others easily, and it just so happened that this time it was appropriate (while it lasted). I never meant to suggest he was doing it out of principle, though I can see how my phrasing might have come off that way.